Adria Curioso’s commute began at 5:30 a.m. Before most of the city stirred, she walked from her apartment off Fowler Avenue and 22nd Street to her first bus stop, indicated by a pole beside a six-lane road. One bus took her south. Another took her west, where she’d sit under an unlit shelter, the sky

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration last year gave an extra $5 million to a network of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy clinics and asked it to run advertisements opposing a proposed abortion amendment, the group confirmed Wednesday. But the Florida Pregnancy Care Network’s board chose not to run those types of ads, the network’s executive director

Local business groups are sounding the alarm about a state bill they say would make it harder to market Tampa Bay and other Florida attractions to tourists, just as the beaches are regaining their footing after two devastating storms. Pinellas and Hillsborough counties collect more than $150 million from hotels each year to fund everything

­Hillsborough deputies on Wednesday fatally shot a man armed with a rifle near a busy Brandon intersection, authorities said. The sheriff’s office received calls around 7:25 a.m. reporting a man carrying an “assault rifle” near the intersection of Windingwood Avenue and Providence Road, Chief Deputy Joseph Maurer said during a news conference. The man, 34-year-old